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Single and Paired Passages

The Measured Progress Formative Content Bank contains single and paired passages (2 or more). The items will appear in your assessment management system with the passage that serves as a resource for the student to answer the question. That may be one passage or it may be multiple. However, many of our passages are paired thematically and can be used together on assessments you develop even if there are only a few that use both passages. Below is a list of all the passages in the Formative Content Bank and their pairings.

GRADE PASSAGE PAIRINGS

Grade 1 Animal Homes

Grade 1 Busy Spring, The

Grade 1 Choose Your Flower Color

Grade 1 Corals

Grade 1 Day and Night

Grade 1 Frog and Little Brown Bat

Grade 1 From Flower to Honey

Grade 1 How Do Hot Air Balloons Work

Grade 1 Living on a Space Shuttle

Grade 1 Morning with Pip

Grade 1 Rumble, Grumble, Growl

Grade 1 Secret, The

Grade 1 Story for Cocoa, A

Grade 1 Sunflower's Life, A Seed to Plant

Grade 1 Too Crowded

Grade 1 We Can Taste

Grade 1 When the Snow Comes

Grade 2 Alexander Graham Bell

Grade 2 All About Clouds Clouds

Grade 2 April Fools

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Grade 2 Buckets of Berries

Grade 2 Busy Body Sleep Solution

Grade 2 Comets

Grade 2 Dixie and the Best Day Ever

Grade 2 First Day of School First Day, The

Grade 2 First Fire

Grade 2 Flowers or Weeds?

Grade 2 Food All Around

Grade 2 Food Chains Human Food Chain, A

Grade 2 Fun Facts About Turtles!

Grade 2 Gone Fishing

Grade 2 Growing Up in a Log Cabin

Grade 2 I Saw an Ant on a Railroad

Track

Grade 2 Iris's New Home

Grade 2 Make Your Own Terrarium

Grade 2 Medieval Knights Knights

Grade 2 Paint the Morning

Grade 2 Plants All Around Us

Grade 2 Pup and Hound Move In Surprise, The

Grade 2 Snug as a Bug

Grade 2 Sourdough Man, The Gingerbread Man, The

Grade 2 South Dakota New York

Grade 2 The Crate

Grade 2 The Tortoise and the Hare

Grade 2 What Makes a Shadow Keeping Cool with Shadows

Grade 2 Why is Summer Hot?

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Grade 3 Apple Tree, The Tree, The

Grade 3 Ayoka and Sequoyah: Writing

the Cherokee Language

Grade 3 Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, The

Grade 3 Can We Predict Volcanic

Eruptions? Lessons in Lava

Grade 3 Catch the Wave

Grade 3 Cold Snap

Grade 3 Discovering New Planets

Grade 3 Dragonflies: Interesting Insects

Grade 3 Emperors Nightingale Precious Nightingale

Grade 3 Enter to Win Third Grader Wins Local Contest

Grade 3 Gold Found in CA Digging for Gold

Grade 3 Gum In School?

Grade 3 Into the Woods Dark Woods, The

Grade 3 Lion and the Mouse, The Androcles and the Lion

Grade 3 Lost Colony, The Plymouth Colony

Grade 3 Manny's Animals

Grade 3 Mission to Mars

Grade 3 Oregon Trail, The Wagons, Roll

Grade 3 Pencils Colored Pencils

Grade 3 Ruckus in the Park I Go For a Ride

Grade 3 Seeing Colors Bending Light

Grade 3 Seeing Stars Astronomy

Grade 3 Skylark Caleb's Story

Grade 3 Spotlight on Leopards Leopards

Grade 3 Steve Irwin

Grade 3 Story of Chocolate Chocolate from Start

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Grade 3 The Big Idea And the Winner is…

Grade 3 This Year's Nest House for Us, The

Grade 3 Thomas Jefferson's Declaration

Grade 3 To Have a Heart Heart to Give, A

Grade 3 Town and Country Mouse Wolf and House Dog

Grade 3 Weather Signs and Rhymes Living with Lizards

Grade 3 What Are Oceans? Oceans, Seas, and Lakes

Grade 3 Welcome to the Night

Grade 3 Why Bears Sleep All Winter

Grade 3 Winn-Dixie

Grade 4 "Wild and Visionary" Idea, A

Grade 4 Aguascalientes, Mexico 1924 Heartland

Grade 4 All the Time in the World;

Scenes from

Grade 4 Amazing Mr. Franklin Benjamin Franklin

Grade 4 Ananse Becomes the Owner of

Stories

Grade 4 April November Rain

Grade 4 At First Sight Desert, The

Grade 4 At Home in the Dark

Grade 4 Baby Ate a Microchip Once, I laughed my socks off

Grade 4 Beaver, The Nature's Engineers

Grade 4 Bloocher

Grade 4 Catch Me If You Can Atalanta

Grade 4 Excellent Adventures of the

Pony Express Pony Express at Work

Grade 4 Fireworks

Grade 4 Fort Adams State Park Web

Page Building Fort Adams

Grade 4 Fronts

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Grade 4 Kinds of Iguana Eavesdropping Iguanas

Grade 4 Line, The That Evening

Grade 4 Lord Moon; Scenes from Lord

Moon

Grade 4 Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Grade 4 NeverSeconds

Grade 4 Night on the Mountain Top, A That Will Teach You

Grade 4 Oceans - Mapping Earth's Last

Frontier

Grade 4 Origami Then and Now Reading Origami Directions

Grade 4 Paintings of Lascaux, The Altamira Cave

Grade 4 Penguin Emperor Penguins

Grade 4 Pioneering in the Ozarks On the Way Home

Grade 4 Precious Things Three Wishes

Grade 4 Rough Riders, The

Grade 4 Rusty Crayfish, the Alien Invader Green Invader

Grade 4 Skunk Spray

Grade 4 Snail Tails The Nose Knows

Grade 4 Spilled Oil Fisherman's Story, A

Grade 4 Statue of Liberty, The Mount Rushmore

Grade 4 Strudel Stories House of Tailors, A

Grade 4 The Raven and the Star Fruit Three Birds

Grade 4 The Twelve Labors of Heracles The Twelve Labors of Hercules

Grade 4 When I Was a Kid How Things Have Changed

Grade 4 Working Women and Children Letter to the Editor

Grade 5 1925 * Mush! Iditarod, The

Grade 5 Archaeology for Kids Stratigraphy

Grade 5 Ayita First to Dance

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Grade 5 Blast to the Past

Grade 5 Catnaps and Dolphin Dreams

Grade 5 Children's Hour, The

Grade 5 Devil's Tower

Grade 5 Eureka! Thinking Like Edison

Grade 5 Excerpt from The Boy Who Drew

Birds

Grade 5 Flight Aviator

Grade 5 Franklin's Work in France French Support

Grade 5 Frozen Rodeo House on 25th St.

Grade 5 Greatest Adventure, The Can't

Grade 5 Island of the Blue Dolphins,

Excerpt from

Grade 5 Kangee and His Drum

Grade 5 Lila on the Landing, Excerpt

from

Grade 5 Little Yin Dress for the Moon

Grade 5 Living With Dust Storms Dust Bowl

Grade 5 Meteorology Weather Forecasters

Grade 5 Nani's Story

Grade 5 Night Flight A Wild Ride

Grade 5 Phillis Wheatley Chapter 3 Phillis Wheatley TOC and

Chapter 2

Grade 5 Play that Jazz

Grade 5 Portrait, The Footbridge, The

Grade 5 Secrets of the Spirit Bear

Grade 5 Seeking "New Worlds" Pilgrims: Voyage to Freedom,

The

Grade 5 Simple Machines Levers

Grade 5 Spy Museum, The Spy Museum Chapter 2, The

Grade 5 Story of Penicillin, The Development of Pasteurization

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Grade 5 Take-Off? Flight Practice

Grade 5 That Wild Berries Should Grow

Grade 5 Think Like a Horse Snow Monster

Grade 5 Thor Loses His Hammer Prometheus and the Theft of

Fire

Grade 5 Turkey Australia

Grade 5 Welcome to the Grand Canyon Grand Canyon

Grade 5 West with Lewis and Clark Trading

Grade 6 A Journey Rescue at Sea

Grade 6 Booker T. Washington Bricks Without Straw

Grade 6 Building the Transcontinental

Railroad Day of the Two Noon

Grade 6 Can We Grow Now? Bristlecone

Pines

Grade 6 Coyote and Turtle

Grade 6 Coyote Next Door, The How Crickets Help Us Check the Pulse of America's Wild Places

Grade 6 Crow Brings Light to the North Aboriginal Legend

Grade 6 Damon and Pythias Frog and Snake

Grade 6 Early December November Poem

Grade 6 Enigma Parts I, II Girl Writing

Grade 6 Eyes Have It Build Your Own Eyeball

Grade 6 Ho, for Sacramento Sweet Betsy from Pike

Grade 6 How High Can We Climb Flight to Yesterday

Grade 6 King's Chosen

Grade 6 Lacey Dover Surprise Snowstorm Traps

Bicycle Group

Grade 6 Learning in your Sleep

Grade 6 Light

Grade 6 Lost Episode 1 Lost Episode 2

Grade 6 Maglev Train Inner Workings

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Grade 6 Maze Craze, The Lost in a Maze

Grade 6 Morning Girl Ode to a New Day

Grade 6 My Contract with Henry, Excerpt

from

Grade 6 My Dog from The Green Dog

Grade 6 Palenque

Grade 6 Power of the Wind, The Deacon Residential and

Commercial Wind Turbines

Grade 6 Predators as Climate Helpers

Grade 6 Real Life Demonstrations

Grade 6 Secret Meeting, A Invisible

Grade 6 Speech New Owner for Alyeska, A

Grade 6 The Last Lesson

Grade 6 Time to Cover the City's

Reservoirs Protect Open Reservoirs

Grade 6 Timeline Civil Rights Leader

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks

Grade 6 What Are Faces For? Should Robots Have Faces?

Grade 6 Wild Man Island Alone: the Classic Polar

Grade 7 3-D Printers Are Making Cars

Grade 7 All-American Slurp, The

Grade 7 Ancestral Puebloan Mesa Top

Grade 7 Anne's Diary Entry Diary of Anne Frank (Re-enactment), The

Grade 7 Cells

Grade 7 CNN Student News One-Sheet:

Electoral College Reform the Electoral College?

Grade 7 Distant Pollution May Intensify

US Twisters

Grade 7 E-book vs Printed Book:

Which is Better

Grade 7 Edison and Modern Research

Methods Edison's Scientific Method

Grade 7 Expand Democracy Right to Vote, The

Grade 7 From Slave to College President Speech to Atlanta Cotton States President Cleveland's

Response

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Grade 7 Hibernation of the Woodchuck,

The

Grade 7 How Tides Work The Tides

Grade 7 Mighty Toes

Grade 7 Myers Farm, The Erie Canal, The

Grade 7 Nathan Hale Story of Nathan Hale, The

Grade 7 New Colossus Ellis Island Interview

Grade 7 Overcoming the Stammer King's Speech, The

Grade 7 Principal's Corner Franklin Fireflies Weekly News ,

The

Grade 7 Reduce Crime Developing Anticrime Policy

Grade 7 School Lunch Guidelines Lose to

Cooks in Congress School Lunch Standards Miss

Mark

Grade 7 Sea Fever Laurence in the Hold

Grade 7 Sherlock Holmes and Blue

Carbuncle How Watson Learned the Trick

Grade 7 Speak On Unicorn Software

Grade 7 The Fun They Had

Grade 7 The Magic White Swan Swan and Shadow

Grade 7 The Telltale Bacteria Cell Phone Tattlers

Grade 7 Vindication of the Rights of

Woman, A Equal Rights for Women

Amendments to the Constitution of the United

States

Grade 7 Watch, The Here for Now

Grade 7 What Is Pluto Should Pluto Be a Planet

Grade 7 White Ape, The

Grade 7 Wild Rice under the Microscope To Find Truly Wild Rice, Head

North to Minnesota

Grade 7 Woodsong Clever Crows Prove Aesop's

Fable

Grade 8 Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

Grade 8 Antarctica's Resources Stop Exploiting Antarctica

Grade 8 Are There Drawbacks to Digital

Learning FCC Chairman Genachowski's

Push for Digital Textbooks

Grade 8 Concentrating Solar Power Solar Power Risks

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Grade 8 Death of the Bee Bees Swarming Kissing the Bee

Grade 8 Ditch the dollar bill Save the dollar bill

Grade 8 Flagstaff Radio Transcript Flagstaff Road

Grade 8 Flight Claims of Gustave

Whitehead Wright-Smithsonian Contract

Grade 8 Four Miles to Pinecone Digging

Grade 8 Gettysburg

Grade 8 Great Expectations

Grade 8 Hearts and Hands

Grade 8 How “Bright” Is It to Use CFLs?

Grade 8 How to Find Directions

Grade 8 I'll Know Victory Letter from Meredith

Grade 8 Is Google Making Us

Stupid_Yes Is Google Making Us Stupid_No

Grade 8 Locally Grown Food Our Food Choices Green!

Grade 8 Mayan Mathematics

Grade 8 Mo'Ne Davis: Baseball Superstar

Grade 8 Mostly the Old and Ill Ate

Breakfast

Grade 8 Obstacle, The Primed

Grade 8 Old Man's Comforts You Are Old Father William

Grade 8 Open Window, The

Grade 8 Press Release, Patrick McHenry HR 4705

Grade 8 Product Testing The Chemistry

of Ice Cream

Grade 8 Protecting a Shoreline and a

Lifeline Climate Effects in Kiribati

Grade 8 Shrink or Sink

Grade 8 Skyways, The Fence, The

Grade 8 Story of Daedalus and Icarus Icarus

Grade 8 Teapot, The Call of the Wild, The

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Grade 8 The Beekeeper Next Door

Grade 8 The Diary of Anne Frank

Grade 8 Time to Ban Misguided Solution, A

Grade 8 Tinker v. Des Moines

Independent Community School District

Grade 8 Watson and Crick Lyndon B. Johnson Race to Discover, The

Grade 8 Wolf and the Sheep, The Four Miles to Pinecone

Grade 09-10 Blue John Mine The Bogus Boo

Grade 09-10 Chance for Peace Transcript of the Truman

Doctrine, An Excerpt

Grade 09-10 Charles H. Ray to Lincoln Lincoln to Jesse W Fell

Grade 09-10 Cyril Sunna

Grade 09-10 Daniel Webster Daniel Webster Painting and

Cartoons

Grade 09-10 Did the Light Bulb Change Our

Sleep Waking Up Teens

Grade 09-10 Divided Over Wind Turbines District Court Conclusion Indiana Bat Decision

Grade 09-10 Establishment of the EPA

Memorandum Massachusetts vs EPA

Grade 09-10 Four Freedoms Sedition Act of 1798 What Do These Images Tell Us

Grade 09-10 From "Supertaster" to the Taste-

Blind

Grade 09-10 from Castle of Otranto from The Red Room

Grade 09-10 From Jane Eyre Flight of Gemma Hardy

Grade 09-10 Golden Fleece, The

Grade 09-10 Great Moonbuggy Race Moonbuggy Construction

Requirements

Grade 09-10 Herd's Fate Lies in Preservation

Clash H.R. 306_Corolla Wild Horse

Grade 09-10 Hiawatha

Grade 09-10 Hound of Baskervilles; In the

Rue In the Rue

Grade 09-10 Humanoid Robotics Communicating and

Collaboration with Robotic Agents

Grade 09-10 Imagine a Saturday Without Mail Would You Miss Saturday Mail

Delivery?

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Grade 09-10 Inauguration Day, from a Magnificent Catastrophe

Grade 09-10 Judge Sonia Sotomayor Remarks by President Obama

Grade 09-10 Juliet and Nurse (Act 2) Juliet and Her Nurses (Act 3) Art from Capulet's House

Grade 09-10 Jungle, The (Upton Sinclair

Muckraking)

Grade 09-10 Layers of Earth's Atmosphere

Grade 09-10 Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1 Graphic Novel Macbeth Act 5

Grade 09-10 Mark Twain's Autobiography

Grade 09-10 Mysterious Island, The Mysterious Island (graphic

novel), The

Grade 09-10 Nellie Bly Chapter 4: The World

Grade 09-10 New Invisibility Cloak Time Cloak

Grade 09-10 Play Smart, Play Safe

Grade 09-10 Pullman Strike, The Letter on the Pullman Strike

Grade 09-10 Raven, The Raven Graphic Novel

Grade 09-10 Rhode Island Name Change

Amendment

Grade 09-10 Rich Historian, The Lucy Hayes

Grade 09-10 Science of Rocket Design, The

Grade 09-10 Speech on the Eve of the Last

Fast Mahatma Gandhi: Father of

Nonviolence

Grade 09-10 Tea Party What a Pair!

Grade 09-10 Texas to Test 1965 Voting

Rights 1965 Voting Rights Act

Grade 09-10 The Bells and Your Laugh is

Like a Silver Bell

Grade 09-10 The First Adventure The Attack of the Windmills

Grade 09-10 The Power of the Doodle

Grade 09-10 Theodore Roosevelt Political Cartoons

Grade 09-10 Timespan Flint, Michigan excerpt from

Rivethead Rivethead Painting

Grade 09-10 Too Many Choices When Choice is Demotivating

Grade 09-10 Transcript of de Lome Letter President McKinley's Message

to Congress Part I President McKinley's Message

to Congress Part II

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Grade 09-10 UN Charter President Eisenhower's Farewell

Address

Grade 09-10 Washington's Farewell Speech Separation of Powers in US

Grade 09-10 World Where Wishes Worked Wisher Takes All

Grade 09-10 Wrestling Match, The To Be the Best

Grade 09-10 You're Vivisima, Virginia, Queen

of Water

Grade 11-12 Antony and Cleopatra Play Antony and Cleopatra Poem

Grade 11-12 Approach to the Valley, The

Grade 11-12 Beach, The

Grade 11-12 Cave of Gold, The Discovery of Gold in CA, The

Grade 11-12 Creating an Open Source

Civilization Open Source Ecology Global

Village

Grade 11-12 Excerpt from My Antonia

Grade 11-12 Farewell to Arms, A Red Badge of Courage

Grade 11-12 How's the Bay Doing?

Grade 11-12 Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Situation

Grade 11-12 John DeWitt; Federalist No. 84,

The

Grade 11-12 Kennedy's Address Obama on Space

Grade 11-12 Lark - Les Miserables Thenardier's Inn

Grade 11-12 Living in the Country Another Chance

Grade 11-12 Lochner v New York Decision Lochner v New York Dissenting

Opinion

Grade 11-12 Love is the Doctor

Grade 11-12 Marjorie Dean: The Letter Part 1 Marjorie Dean: The Letter Part 2

Grade 11-12 Photosynthesis

Grade 11-12 Plato's Cave Media Universe American Viewer

Grade 11-12 Pygmalion Huckleberry Finn

Grade 11-12 RI Charter Executive Order Press Release

Grade 11-12 Robinson Crusoe, excerpt from

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Grade 11-12 Saving Our Seeds

Grade 11-12 Shakespeare's Zero History of Zero, The

Grade 11-12 Stamp Act Ben Franklin's Testimony

Grade 11-12 Susan B. Anthony Trial Part 1 Susan B. Anthony Trial Part 2

Grade 11-12 The Proposal' from Pride and

Prejudice

Grade 11-12 Thomas Jefferson to John

Holmes Case of Dred Scott

Grade 11-12 US vs. Nixon; Nixon's Speech

Grade 11-12 Walden, excerpt from

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